JPL Cloud Computing Status and Recent Experience presented to
ESIP Winter Meeting Product and Services Committee Cloud Computing
Cluster Douglas Hughes January 8, 2013 Copyright 2013 California
Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged.
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Overly-Ambitious Agenda View of Cloud Computing Near-term Plan
for the Cloud Position on Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds Cloud
Providers and Feedback Our Big Data Problem. Can the Cloud be the
Solution? {with slides from Tom Soderstorm} Fundamental Design,
Implementation, Application & Policy/Social Issues for our use
of Cloud Computing Allocating Cloud Resources to Projects and
General Users Optimization of Cloud Usage by Projects and General
Users Safeguards to Prevent Runaway Resource Usage (& Costs)
Provisioning Interfaces and User Guides Our Best Practices and
Lessons Learned Long-Term Strategies
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View of Cloud Computing It is a natural and necessary extension
of our own internal and contractor data center capabilities We can
and must use Cloud computing securely Its changing, so we
continuously and consistently evaluate Cloud providers and
supporting technologies and services
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Near-Term Plan for the Cloud Continue and increase our use as
appropriate Advance our security visibility and controls Further
automate provisioning and billing Further integrate Cloud with JPL
IT Ops Increase the outreach to Projects and developers Prove value
with metrics
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Position on Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds We use a Private
and Public Clouds every day Private Clouds fully accommodate our
security, operational and network requirements Public Clouds
provide very large scale capacity-on- demand (elasticity) Our
volume is markedly larger in our Private Cloud because of hosting
nearly 400 persistent applications We use a Hybrid Cloud (JPL-AWS)
in to support some aspects of MER and MSL
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Cloud Providers and Feedback AWS is our largest Cloud provider
EC2 is the majority VPC lightly used GovCloud soon in production
(awaiting ATO) Piloting it with NASATube AWS and JPL have a mature,
collaborative relationship Azure is used for a public outreach
application Be a Martian Lockheed Martin provides our Private Cloud
VMs and storage
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7 Whats driving the Big Data trend at JPL? Growth factors at
JPL Higher quality of data (input & output) will increase the
size Increased amount of data expected Need to store and process
many massively large files Recombine new data with prior missions
and reprocess Need for faster, optimized networks to move big data
Networks of expertise to process big data Increased use of video
and more devices How do we handle new big data, reprocess data, and
partner?